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... 402-17 margin last month. Considered to be one of the landmark civil rights laws of the 20th century, the ADA was designed to protect any individual who is discriminated against on the basis of disability. The law was passed with overwhelming ... more generous meaning and application of the definition. The legislation would make it easier for people with disabilities to be covered by the ADA because it effectively expands the definition of disability to include many more major life activities, as ...

... employers from discriminating, in employment and benefits, against a qualified individual with a disability.11 The ADA also prohibits medical inquiries or examinations[12] of applicants and employees regarding ... were disabled, it was an obvious conclusion "that Congress did not intend to bring under the ADA's protection all those whose uncorrected conditions amount to disabilities. That group ... Wellness Programs'' (June 1, 2006). [24] See generally Rose v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 186 F.Supp.2d 595 (D ...

... developmental disabilities, muscular dystrophy, and cancer, among many others. The reforms in the law will apply to both the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The reforms will restore the intent of the bipartisan Congress that passed the ADA ... able to walk eleven miles without experiencing some discomfort. In addition to these reforms, the ADAAA removes from ADA's "regarded as" prong of the disability definition the requirement that an individual demonstrate that he or she has, or is ...

... may define disability differently from the Social Security Act and The Rehabilitation Act. In fact, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provide three different definitions of disability. It is important to understand all three definitions. According to the ADA (which ... her driving, a federal court may not find that the employee has a disability under the first definition of the ADA. The take-home lesson? It appears that one's inability to drive, standing alone, may not be enough to win a ...

Last week, the Senate unanimously passed the ADA Amendments Act (S. 3406). It is similar to the bill the House passed 402-17 earlier this year. Given this widespread bipartisan support, it is likely that we might see the first Democratically-driven employment law changes before President Bush leaves office. By doing so, this President Bush would expand upon the law first enacted by his father in 1990. The highlights of the bill defines "substantially limits" to mean "materially restricts," it ...

... is some truth to the idea that the high court's employment decisions have curbed the ADA's expansionary momentum. But then there are the cases like that of Dark v. ... , and Proskauer Rose. Robert Loblaw at Appellate Decisions writes (Jul. 6): The ADA often places employers in a difficult position, since they have knowledge of the dangers of ... , this case is similar to last year's Pacific Bell case, which involved a home repair technician who had spent time in a mental hospital after being found not ...

... . Grooms filed suit against the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act, alleging that he was being forced into an institution because the state refused to pay for his necessary in-home care under the waiver program. Mr. Grooms argued that, under the ADA mandate, the state should provide him with the same level of in-home care it would be required to provide if he were hospitalized. The state moved ...

... Buchanan, a mentally ill man, was shot to death inside his isolated Maine home when he repeatedly stabbed one of two deputy sheriffs who had gone to check on ... law tended to support the officers' actions, not put them on notice of illegality." As to the ADA claim, applying United States v. Georgia, 126 S. Ct. 877 ... avoids the question of whether Title II is unconstitutional as applied to Maine, and concludes that the ADA doesn't require that Maine provide a given level of service to Buchanan, and ...

... , I never lose sight of the seemingly mundane changes it has made possible. I remember, during the long campaign to pass ADA, explaining to a young woman in a wheelchair how the law would open new opportunities in education and employment. She said, "Senator, I ... course of physical barriers to movement in their everyday lives. My late brother Frank, who was deaf, was sent far from home to a "school for the deaf and dumb" (yes, people routinely used this offensive term - and worse), and later was ...

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day set up here to encourage bloggers and twitterers to talk about women in technology. Ada B. Lovelace was a friend of Charles Babbage, and actually wrote the first computer program for Babbage's proto-computer. The idea is ... of her co-workers, "No matter how hectic things got in those pioneering days, she was writing, publishing, speaking, taking work home, advising people, and performing myriad other tasks…" She was also an adept leader. "She was able to foster a ...